The difficulty with cutting tax is that the government also needs to reduce its spending, and few people are willing to give up their government benefits. But there is a way to cut tax and spending by $80 billion, while leaving nobody worse off.

How many governments around the western world are suggesting turning national parks into mines? New Zealand’s Minister of Energy Gerry Brownlee has done just that, announcing that the government will be exploring whether parts of the national conservation estate can unlock mineral resource potential.